Given that even the web "dark out" hasn't killed these zombie bills, Anonymous is calling for physical protests to oppose the bills:

This is an urgent emergency alert to all people of the United States. The day we've all been waiting for has unfortunately arrived.

The United States is censoring the internet. Our blatant response is that we will not sit while our rights are taken away by the government we trusted them to preserve. This is not a call to arms, but a call to recognition and action! The United States government has mastered this corrupt way of giving us a false sense of freedom. We think we are free and can do what we want, but in reality we are very limited and restricted as to what we can do, how we can think, and even how our education is obtained. We have been so distracted by this mirage of freedom, that we have just become what we were trying to escape from.

For too long, we have been idle as our brothers and sisters were arrested. During this time, the government has been scheming, plotting ways to increase censorship through means of I S P block aides, D N S blockings, search engine censorship, website censorship, and a variety of other methods that directly oppose the values and ideas of both Anonymous as well as the founding fathers of this country,who believed in free speech and press!

The United States has often been used as an example of the ideal free country. When the one nation that is known for its freedom and rights start to abuse its own people, this is when you must fight back, because others are soon to follow. Do not think that just because you are not a United States citizen, that this does not apply to you. You cannot wait for your country to decide to do the same. You must stop it before it grows, before it becomes acceptable. You must destroy its foundation before it becomes too powerful.

Has the U.S. government not learned from the past? Has it not seen the 2011 revolutions? Has it not seen that we oppose this wherever we find it and that we will continue to oppose it? Obviously the United States Government thinks they are exempt. This is not only an Anonymous collective call to action. What will a Distributed Denial of Service attack do? What's website defacement against the corrupted powers of the government? No. This is a call for a worldwide internet and physical protest against the powers that be. Spread this message everywhere. We will not stand for this! Tell your parents, your neighbors, your fellow workers, your school teachers, and anyone else you come in contact with. This affects anyone that desires the freedom to browse anonymously, speak freely without fear of retribution, or protest without fear of arrest.

Go to every I R C network, every social network, every online community, and tell them of the atrocity that is about to be committed. If protest is not enough, the United States government shall see that we are truly legion and we shall come together as one force opposing this attempt to censor the internet once again, and in the process discourage any other government from continuing or trying.

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EMERGENCY ACTION AUTHORIZED. ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL PROTESTS IS NEEDED. CONVERGE AT FREEWAYS AND HIGHWAYS. LIBRARIES, MALLS, GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, SCHOOLS...ALL ARE ACCEPTABLE AREAS! IF YOUR GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN THE INTERNET … SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT!

damn this is so lame....they threaten to shut of the internet and what do you do to protest against that ? shutting of the internet is just what they want and you give it to them....this was a sopa test at best...maybe they were trying to check how many people were able to use the services that were "down" anyways

I'm just a poor hack, nobody loves meHe's just a poor hack from a hack family!Spare him his life from this Bill monstrosity!Easy come, easy go, will SOPA let me go?Bismilah! No, we will not let you go!(Let him go!) Bismilah! We will not let you go(Let him go!) Bismilah! We will not let you go(Let me go) Will not let you go (Let me go)(Never) SOPA never let you go(Let me go) PIPA never let you go (Let me go) AhNo, no, no, no, no, no, noOh Sopapipa, Sopapipa, Sopapipa let me go!BoozemanRubio has a devil put aside for me, for me, for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Henceforth, if your word usage on the internet that is used or spelled incorrectly per Webster's, they should enforce the definitions in their dictionary and should cause you to remove your post. All other word usage is now subject to copyright and charged out at $.01 a word.

tensions over these abhorrent pieces of legislation are oddly distributed. It's feels strange to talk about a suspected CIA data mining company like google in a positive light, but I actually hope their opposition to SOPA and PIPA is genuine and not a pub stunt. without google's support and with it's active resistance I don't see either of these bills surviving much longer, such is the influence they wield in all things web browsing, not to mention the amount of money they have to spread around.

make no mistake, if it was just "we the people" protesting these bills, we would be ignored and these bills would be well on their way to passing, much like the NDAA bill. but now that several globe spanning corporates have got involved, it's a different story and support for these bills has all but vanished. it's beginning to look like the bills are going to be killed, but not by the will and power of the people, we are once again just useful pawns, by the power of multi national corporations, who for whatever reason don't want this to become law.

another example of where the true power lies in USA inc. despite the positive outcome that may occur, people must not be fooled into believing that this was the result of democracy and free people acting, that Washington started listing to us, no, this is clearly the result of some very powerful influences disagreeing with congress for their own reasons.

clearly a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my ally" but only temporarily.

We'll see what happens on vote day. "I don't agree with any of this, but i'll sign it anyway."

The only good thing that will come out of it is I live in a rural area and there is no high speed except for satellite which is near $100 a month. Since all the good sites like ZH won't be around anymore ill be canceling the service.

As usual people we must vote with our feet. Let the money junkies experience some withdrawal symptoms and BOYCOTT ALL NEW MOVIES for a month or so. Yeah let a few of those so called block busters fall completely on their face and see what happens. I like it!

There is big money seeing it through. Congress simply raised the price, knowing full well that they will change the page numbers and it will literally sail through.

Obama lied on NDAA and he is lying on this bullshit, too. He is going to put Larry Fuckhead Summers in the world bank for God sakes!

I am led to believe the entire circus has America taking their eye off the ball for something far more sinister to proceed. Most likely another Socialist giveaway to the rich, or banks, or foreclosure immunity, some bullshit setttlement, or sacrificing citizens rights for the highest bidder elsewhere. my guess is the citizens are unknowingly trading war with Iran and the Internet is the hostage.

Something isn't right, congress never gives in when its oppression for money. Nothing should surprise you with corporations calling unaccountable shots.

Hollywood stands for entertainment, which is 99% a mind numbing opiate of the masses.

Rupert Murdoch, the guy who just got caught with his media organization bribing police, officials, illegally tapping etc. is adamant that SOPA is the right thing to do. Hail, Murdoch. Time for you to be taken out behind the barn.

I think that the 1% of content that has any value coming out of Hollywood would not only survive Hollywood's demise, it would flourish.

The same goes for the music "industry" and all of crap that it churns out under its labels.

Pretty soon the only people able to screw you without a condom WILL BE the 'lawmakers'. Once again gov't regular-lamentations, er, regulations are dick-tating where, how, and who you can fuck. Just another day in Paradise.

I must agree 100000000%... If a criminal like Murdoch is supporting this bill, then ANYONE must be able to understand that something very very bad is going on... Just call it the "bill that Murdoch wants to have passed, you know, the guy that was wiretapping murdered kids' phones for profit" when explaining your friends about the evil that is about to happen...

And by the way, exercise your consumer power by not buying a single track at iTunes, CD or DVD and don't go to the movies for a month...

Pipa sounds like a blow job; as for Sopa its a soap opera where Oprah sings Whitney in Houston, land of the Oligarchs, and obligingly says to please BArry "one moment in time" was a song for the birds. We'll all be Tweeting from now on if Sopa becomes Vigilante Ropa in COngress and gets Internet nailed to the Cross.

I want to see the people who said the blackout was a stunt, and would not amount to shit. While these bills are not dead yet, they certainly are zombiefied. The point of today was to have the mainstream media cover the bills, of which they had no choice and did so with a vengence. Weird, that ALL their parent companies are for SOPA/PIPA, but it gets to the point where the dumb masses even begin to wonder why Google has a black thing across it's name.

Knowledge is power, and that power was unleashed today. To what ends or purpose, that I have no idea. I am sure we will see the ZOG owns Google, and Wikipedia is a CIA cover, any second know.

You have to replace ASN's and routing technology, and TCP, etc. and my personal favorite, the millions of miles in infrastructure between cities. Wifi barely makes it across the street, and all spectrum bands otherwise are already owned by the gov inc.

Curious how this one is going to pan out.. Its Tech corps vs Net corps. Clearly the public is against this but its not like that even matters anymore.. Always waiting for that catalyst that might rally and awaken the critical mass. If they fuck with facebook that could be one. I like your articles keep em coming.. curious how tepcos been screwing things up lately.

Curious how this one is going to pan out.. Its Tech corps vs Net corps

It will go the same way the off-shore Poker companies like Full Tilt Poker/Pokerstars, via their lobbying agency, the Poker Players Alliance (headed by fmr. NY Sen. Al D'Amato...yes, set for fail). Full Tilt Poker, which the DOJ said was a "ponzi scheme" (more like a company set sail for fail), was all over the board of members of the PPA, which gave over $2 million in campaign contributions in the last 3 years since the UEIGA passed. The PPA even hosted an event at the Denver, CO Democratic Convention in 2008 where Obama and other Dems bigwigs shoo hands and hung out with stars of poker like Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu. Pokerstars spent over $300K in Nevada last year ALONE.

What happened? Well, the big casino corporations stepped up THEIR bribery game and gave more. Harrah's (now Caesar's) gave Bill Frist (who's an Evangelical), who crafted the UEIGA under the guise of "protecting us from online gambling pitfalls" for the Christian vote in TN in 2006, $25K (along with probably various rooms and fancy dinners). Sheldon Anderson, owner of the Sands Corporation (Venetian), gave Newt $2 million alone (talk about setting money on fire).

Well, we all know who won. There is NO way the big tech companies, even Google, can outspend Hollywood/Big Media/Big Pharma/Big Banks. Especially when you can consider that big Hollywood can give more than money, in terms of visible actor endorsements as well as under-the-table hookers.

The only way to defeat money, is through advocacy.....like yesterday.

Remember, the porn lobby, headed by the "Free Speech Organization" (lol) had a YouTube video led by Ron Jeremy saying how piracy had extracted cash from the porn industry that should go to talent, by exploiting technology.

Ron Jeremy and the porn industry ranting about exploitation? Talk about the Pot calling the Kettle Black (cock).